Yuyi Ding 丁聿一

CS BEng @ HKUST | COMP 1023 UGTA

HKUST, Hong Kong SAR
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News

Sep 2025

Recordings for COMP 1023 LA2 is here. πŸš€

Aug 2025

I will teach LA2 of COMP 1023 in the coming Fall semester πŸ§‘β€πŸ«

Aug 2025

My small project HKUST AC Addon has been published to the Chrome Web Store ❄️

> About

Hi! I'm a Computer Science undergraduate at HKUST. I am passionate about learning new things through hands-on experience. I have broad interest in various fields, including artificial intellegence, web development, software engineering and theoretical computer science. I love to solve complicated problems in simple and elegant ways.

I enjoy coding and strive to write concise, efficient, and high-quality code. I value well-structured and organized projects, and I am interested in software lifecycle, reliability and verification recently. Besides, I love leveraging technology to solve real-world problems.

I am also curious about artificial intellegence. I enjoy developing an intuitive understanding first, but also value explainability, especially for AI systems. One of my goal is to make them not only powerful but also understandable and transparent.

Beyond academics, I am passionate about teaching. I aim to help my students build intuition for knowledge and understand complex concepts in simple ways, just like what I love to do in my learning experience.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ― Leonardo da Vinci
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. ― Blaise Pascal

> Education

  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

    Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science | Class of 2027

  • ETH Zurich

    Exchange Program (Expected) | Spring 2026

  • No.1 Middle School Affiliated to Central China Normal University

    High School Diploma | Class of 2024

> Experience

  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

    Feb 2024 - present | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    Teach tutorials, design and implement assignments, answer questions, etc.

  • Full-Stack AI Engineer Intern

    Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 | Zonic Tech Limited, Hong Kong SAR

    Design, develop, test, and deploy AI agent systems.

More of my experience ->

> Projects

All projects ->

> Skills

  • Programming Languages

    PythonC++JavaTypeScriptJavaScript

  • Libraries / Frameworks

    TensorFlowPyTorchNumPypandasMatplotlibunittestscikit-learnKerasDjangoReactNext.jsLangChainLangGraphLangSmith

  • Tools / Databases

    MySQLGitLinuxNginxDocker

  • Others

    HTMLCSSMarkdownLaTeXMicrosoft WordMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPoint

  • Languages

    EnglishMandarin (Native)

> Courses

  • COMP 3031 - Principles of Programming Languages
  • COMP 4211 - Machine Learning
  • COMP 4901A - Distributed Systems
  • COMP 4901B - Large Language Models
  • COMP 5712 - Introduction to Combinatorial Optimization
  • [Teaching] COMP 2211 - Exploring Artificial Intelligence
  • [Teaching] COMP 1023 - Introduction to Python Programming
  • and more

> Awards

  • Dean's List

    {2023-24,2024-25}⨂{Fall,Spring} | School of Engineering, HKUST

  • Chiaphua Industries Limited Scholarships for Chinese Mainland Undergraduate Students

    2025 | Chiaphua Industries Limited

  • 2024/25 University's Scholarship Scheme for Continuing Undergraduate Students

    2024 | HKUST

  • Grand Prize, Outstanding Student Award

    2023 | No.1 Middle School Affiliated to Central China Normal University

> Misc

Some of my hobbies and interests:

  • Table tennis

  • Transportation

  • Genshin Impact & Honkai: Star Rail

  • Phigros (Ranking Score == 15.95)

  • Blood on the Clocktower (a social deduction game)
    (I usually serve as the Storyteller, i.e. host of the game)

A passage that I really love

>>> import this
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
― The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

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